An English creamware transfer printed jug, circa 1780

‘Like jugs, teapots were printed with such slogans as … “Success to the Independent Volunteer Societies of the Kingdom of Ireland”, along with images of a Volunteer and Hibernia and a crowned harp. These artifacts mixed the symbols of Irish patriotism with other imagery. One Wedgwood teapot depicted a Volunteer and Hibernia on one side and a rural scene on the other. Another depicted the famous scene of the death of General Wolfe along with more local concerns, suggesting that unsold stock was recycled by Wedgwood for the Irish patriot market.’ (P. Higgins, A Nation of Politicians: Gender, Patriotism, and Political Culture in Late Eighteenth-Century Ireland, Wisconsin, 2010, p.102). For the Queen’s Ware Wedgwood teapot with the same two transfer prints as the present jug, the transfer prints applied by Sadler and Green in Liverpool, see R. Copeland, Wedgwood Ware, Princes Risborough, 2004, illustrated p.7.